Meanings
comparative more rightward · superlative most rightward
- To or from the right.
This is seen as abnormal rapid leftward motion of the septum during preejection followed by rightward (paradoxical) motion.
2012, Catherine M. Otto, The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, →ISBN, page 1911 more example
Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”
2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN
comparative more rightward · superlative most rightward
- To or from the right.
Most polls give the left, divided between Socialists, ecologists and far-left parties, less than 30 percent of the vote in a France drifting rightward. The once-proud “gauche” is in tatters.
2021 September 2, Roger Cohen, “The French Left Is in Disarray, but Here Comes Anne Hidalgo”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2021
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Englishright
- Proto-Indo-European*wert-
- Proto-Germanic*wardaz
- Englishrightward
Cite this entry
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